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...with these new tools, like the bow and arrow and the spear thrower, could our ancestors begin to mimic the speed and sharpness of a big cat's claws. Even so, predator animals remained a major threat. As late as the 7th century B.C., a stela erected by the Assyrian King Assurbanipal recounts the ferocity of the lions and tigers after torrential rains had flushed them out of their lairs; the great King, of course, stamped out the beasts...
...holiday is also a celebration of a military victory over the repressive King Antiochus and Assyrian Greeks. In today's age of political correctness, any military victory is supposed to be recognized as oppression of some other group. We learned that with Thanksgiving. The PC police should clue in immediately on Chanukah...
...particularly, one sees Seurat's major ambition working itself out: his conservative but in fact deeply radical desire to reconstruct an art opposed to the Impressionist cult of the moment, his hope of making grand, complex, time-resistant images whose mysterious permanence could take its place beside Greek and Assyrian bas- reliefs or the works of Ingres in the Louvre...
Graduate students aren't the only people you'll overhear discussing astrophysics or Assyrian art at Out of Town News. Harvard Square harbors a ragtag community of itinerant intellectuals, secret geniuses, closet poets and conspiracy theorists who have no official connection to the University ("I'm not enrolled at Harvard, I just go there...
...first close-up look at a recently discovered trove of exquisite Assyrian jewelry that experts are calling the most significant archaeological find since King...